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DeKalb County Police Quotas Result in Arrest
By Bill Torpy – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016 Officer Demetrius Kendrick, right, is accused of planting some weed near Alphonso Eleby, sitting. Eleby’s lawyer says the cop was trying to meet an arrest quota in the department. Just about anyone who’s gotten a ticket inherently knows that cops have to live up to […]
DeKalb Arrest Quotas Lead to Illegal Arrest of Our Client
By Rhonda Cook – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution A frame capture from the store video shows Officer Kendrick, right, and another officer with Alphonso Eleby, seated, seconds before Kendrick claimed that he found loose marijuana on the ground near Eleby. Posted: 1:10 p.m. Friday, Sept. 16, 2016 Alphonso Eleby had stopped at a convenience store for […]
Dunwoody officer faces fourth police-search lawsuit
Posted by Dyana Bagby on September 1, 2016. A Dunwoody Police officer is facing a fourth lawsuit alleging an unlawful search and arrest months after the city settled three similar suits against him. Officer Dale Laskowski has been sued in federal court and accused of “unlawful seizure, detention and search” of Colton Laidlaw, who was […]
US woman given body cavity searches at border settles case
By RUSSELL CONTRERAS ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — U.S. Customs and Border Protection agreed to pay $475,000 to a New Mexico woman who accused agents of forcing her to undergo body cavity probes and then got charged for the exams, civil liberties advocates said Thursday. The settlement in the case, which drew national attention three […]
Dunwoody settles three police-search lawsuits involving same officer
Posted by Dyana Bagby on July 22, 2016. Jermaine Muhammad remembers vividly the day three years ago when he was pulled over by a city police officer. “He pulled me over for a cracked windshield and then immediately began asking me if I had weapons and drugs,” said Muhammad, the owner of Dunwoody Barber Salon […]
DeKalb County Government – Rotten to the Core
Mark Niesse – The Atlanta Journal-Constitution (August 5, 2015) Special investigators have found that DeKalb County’s government “is rotten to the core,” with allegations of bribery, widespread abuses of taxpayer money and theft of government property, according to a letter sent by the investigators Wednesday to Interim DeKalb CEO Lee May. “The misconduct starts at the […]
Federal Suit Over Illegal Strip Search by Wisonsin Police
By John Diedrich of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel – June 28, 2015 A woman is claiming her rights were violated by a male Mequon police officer who she says instructed her to remove her clothing so he could photograph her tattoos while she was being booked in 2011. Lauren Howie Laur’s lawsuit states that one Mequon […]
“Free range” parents to sue authorities for taking and holding children.
By Donna St. George and Brigid Schulte April 14 in Washington Post . . A D.C-based law firm will file suit and pursue “all legal remedies” to protect the rights of the Maryland parents whose two young children were taken into custody for more than five hours Sunday after someone reported them as they made […]
Florida prison system under attack for abuse and deaths of inmates
By Barnini Chakraborty / FoxNews.com Published April 09, 2015 The exterior of Florida State Prison near Starke, Florida. (Reuters) Florida’s state-run prison system is being hammered with allegations that guards abused and even killed inmates — including one incident where, according to a witness, the skin was scalded off a prisoner’s body in a shower — leaving […]